Brazil’s government has run out of quick fixes for the country’s economic problems and has no room for mistakes as it tries to get its budget in order and spur growth, Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said.

The Brazilian central bank’s President Alexandre Tombini has recommended Tony Volpon, head of emerging markets research at Nomura Securities International, to be named the bank’s Director of International Affairs.

Brazilian truckers protesting higher taxes and low incomes continued to block highways around the country Thursday despite an agreement by the government and truckers’ unions intended to end the protests.

Brazil’s real plummeted against the dollar as a burgeoning scandal at state-controlled oil company Petrobras and a steady stream of bad economic indicators pushed investors to seek safety in the U.S. currency.

Brazilian coffee cooperative Cocapec expects its members to produce only about half as much coffee in 2015 as they produced during last year’s record harvest, the group’s sales head for coffee said Tuesday.

The leader of Brazil’s Senate unexpectedly rejected a tax-increase measure sent by President Dilma Rousseff for legislative approval, highlighting the political challenges facing the president as she tries to enact fiscal austerity measures.